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Ghosts of Gondwana

Television (Full Length) – 2001

Long isolated, New Zealand contains a world of Alice Through the Looking Glass natural oddities: birds, insects and plants like nowhere else. American scientist Jared Diamond remarked "it is the nearest approach to life on another planet". Palaeontology (from Professor Michael Archer) and Māori myth (told by Hirini Melbourne) reveal these 'Ghosts of Gondwana'. Then cutting edge camera techniques (earning a Merit Award at the 2002 International Wildlife Film Festival) delve into a night world of bat-filled tree trunk saunas, “demon grasshopper” wētā, and furry kiwi with chopstick bills.

Key Cast & Crew

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Peter Hayden

Writer

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George Henare

Narrator

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Graeme Perkins

Composer

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Ian McGee

Writer

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Marilyn McArthur

Editor

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Rod Morris

Director, Producer, Camera Operator

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